Highlights
C&EN: Copper finally joins the metallocene club
17 February 2026More than 70 years after ferrocene’s discovery, cuprocene fills a long-standing gap in the sandwich menu.
C&EN: Lighting a better path for biobased furans
16 January 2026Photocatalytic hydrolysis offers a shortcut for renewable chemicals.
C&EN: Gas looping boosts efficiency of carbon nanotube production
22 December 2025Methane pyrolysis reactor recycles process gases to improve output of nanotubes and hydrogen.
C&EN: Enhanced rock weathering shows little climate benefit in large trial
18 December 20253-year Swiss study underscores the importance of site selection to maximize CO2 sequestration.
Nature Nanotechnology: Brain–computer interfaces race to the clinic
12 December 2025Advances in materials science, microelectronics and semiconductor manufacturing are helping these devices to benefit patients.
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Author Archives: Mark Peplow
Chemistry World: When evidence isn’t enough
The UK debate over folic acid highlights science’s role in public health ethics.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Kesterite solar cells get ready to shine
Ambitious research programs aim to overcome the roadblocks keeping these materials out of commercial solar cells.
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Chemical & Engineering News: How lanthanides keep volcanic bacteria alive
Coordination complex reveals why rare-earth elements give methanol dehydrogenase enzyme a boost.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Shaking up gold and palladium
Mechanochemical method makes noble metal compounds without solvents or harsh reagents.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Robot arm carries nanoscale cargo
Fast-moving DNA origami device controlled by electric field.
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Chemistry World: A question of reproducibility
Survey of metal–organic frameworks raises concerns about the reliability of adsorption data.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Rewritable paper goes technicolor
Metal-ligand complexes display a range of long-lasting colors that can be erased on demand, allowing paper to be reused.
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Chemistry World: Academic versus predator
Researchers must halt the rise of predatory journals by cutting off their supply of papers.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Metal-organic framework compound sets methane storage record
Sol-gel synthesis boosts the capacity of a common porous material.
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Chemical & Engineering News: DNA origami hits the big time
New set of techniques enables the mass-production of micrometer-sized DNA structures.
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